stabilizing and considering their effects on the soft clay soil. The improvement technique
adopted in this study includes improving the behaviour, of a square footing over soft clay
through grouting the clay with a slurry of lime-silica fume before and after installation of the
footing. A grey-colored densified silica fume is used. Three percentages are used for lime
(2%, 4% and 6%) and three percentages are used for silica fume (2.5%, 5%, 10%) and the …